Job summary
Responsible to: Senior Clinical Pharmacist/Advanced Practitioner and
Practice Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 1 x post - looking for 30-37.5 hours per week
Job Purpose:
We are looking to recruit an additional Clinical
Pharmacist to join our ever-expanding team within Blackhall & Peterlee Practice. We are a 10,000 patient, 4 Partner practice based in the Easington area of Durham.
Interviews:
We hope to hold interviews on Tuesday 12th December
Main duties of the job
Working within your clinical and professional boundaries in a patient facing role as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. Perform face-to-face structured medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities as well as undertaking reviews of patients with specific long-term conditions that fall within your competency.
Work in partnership with stake holder organisations to improve the safety and quality of care for patients and manage medicines on transfer of care. Deliver medicines optimisation initiatives within GP practices including the provision of specialist professional pharmaceutical advice and services to ensure the safe and cost-effective use of medicines. This will involve work to deliver key medicines optimisation outcomes against a CCG set work plan.Contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as supporting aspects of theQuality and Outcomes Framework, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. You will also be required to contribute towards practice financial stability through medicines optimisation and related targets in QOF.
The post holder will comply with the organisations policies and procedures.
Kayleigh Davison, Senior Pharmacist/Advanced Practitioner for role related queries -kayleigh.davison@nhs.net
Catherine Armitage, Practice Manager for practice related queries -catherine.armitage1@nhs.net
About us
We are a 10,000 patient, 4 partner practice based in the Easington area of Durham.
We are an innovative, forward thinking, training practice and are looking to expand the clinical pharmacy support within the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached job description and person specification uploaded with the advert for a full overview.
The job includes the following responsibilities:
- Patient facing long term conditions clinics and structured medication reviews
- Care home medication reviews
- Management of common / minor / self-limiting ailments
- Patient facing and telephone based medicines support
- Medicines information to practice staff and patients
- Unplanned hospital admissions
- Management of medicines on discharge from hospital
- Medicines optimisation
- Repeat prescribing
- Risk stratification
- Medicines safety and quality improvement
- Implementation of local and national formulary guidelines
- Education and training
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached job description and person specification uploaded with the advert for a full overview.
The job includes the following responsibilities:
- Patient facing long term conditions clinics and structured medication reviews
- Care home medication reviews
- Management of common / minor / self-limiting ailments
- Patient facing and telephone based medicines support
- Medicines information to practice staff and patients
- Unplanned hospital admissions
- Management of medicines on discharge from hospital
- Medicines optimisation
- Repeat prescribing
- Risk stratification
- Medicines safety and quality improvement
- Implementation of local and national formulary guidelines
- Education and training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- CPPE primary care pathway training course or working towards / intent of completing
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of PCNs, GPs and general practices.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Good IT skills.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and motivate the audience to comply with the recommendations and agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Work effectively independently and as a team member.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Experience with GP clinical systems.
Other
Essential
- Self-Motivation.
- Adaptable.
- Ability and willingness to travel between practice sites.
- In date DBS check.
- Immunisation status.
- UK Work Permit (if required).
Desirable
- Safeguarding adult and children level three.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- CPPE primary care pathway training course or working towards / intent of completing
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of PCNs, GPs and general practices.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
- Good IT skills.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and motivate the audience to comply with the recommendations and agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Work effectively independently and as a team member.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Experience with GP clinical systems.
Other
Essential
- Self-Motivation.
- Adaptable.
- Ability and willingness to travel between practice sites.
- In date DBS check.
- Immunisation status.
- UK Work Permit (if required).
Desirable
- Safeguarding adult and children level three.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
